1 Although Momentum still plays a major role in organising The World Transformed, the two are technically separate entities.
2 Tristram Hunt speaking on Channel 4 News (3 December 2015); John McTernan, quoted in Matt Dathan, ‘So, who are the “moronic MPs” who nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership contest?’, Independent (22 July 2015); Michael Portillo speaking on the BBC’s This Week (17 January 2018); Toby Young speaking on the BBC’s Sunday Politics (10 December 2017); Sajid Javid speaking in the House of Commons (28 March 2018)
3 Jeremy Gilbert, ‘An epochal election: welcome to the era of platform politics’, openDemocracy (1 August 2017)
4 Ibid.
5 Internal Momentum data shared with author.
6 David Bond, ‘Labour’s slick online campaign outguns Tory press’, Financial Times (9 June 2017); Adam Becket and Adam Bienkov, ‘Pro-Jeremy Corbyn group Momentum has won the battle for the soul of the Labour Party’, Business Insider (25 September 2017); Jason Murugesu, ‘Is Momentum’s M.app the future of political organising?’, New Statesman (22 September 2017)
7 Casper Hughes, ‘How Momentum delivered Labour’s stunning election result – and how the Tories are trying to copy it’, Independent (19 July 2017)
8 Becky Bond and Zack Exley, Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything (Chelsea Green, 2016), p. 4
9 Julian Jackson, ‘How Croydon Went Red’, Novara Media (18 June 2017)
10 Tweet by Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) on 16 January 2018: https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/953364895432626181
11 At the time of writing, tenants of Hamilton House were facing eviction as part of a controversial redevelopment plan pursued by the building owners Connolly & Callaghan. For more details, see Matty Edwards’ excellent reporting for the Bristol Cable, including ‘Hamilton House evictions begin as controversial development looms’ (14 March 2018) and ‘Bristol City Council to look into buying Hamilton House’ (16 January 2019). Information on the campaign to save Hamilton House can be found at: https://www.hamiltonhouse.org/
12 Internal Momentum literature shared with author
13 Julia Kollewe, ‘Rent-to-own retailer BrightHouse ordered to repay £14.8m to customers’, Guardian (24 October 2017); Raymond Williams, ‘Culture is Ordinary’, in Jim McGuigan (ed.), Raymond Williams on Culture & Society: Essential Writings (SAGE, 2014)
14 Jessica Elgot, ‘A quarter of McDonald’s UK workers have seen viral Momentum video, Facebook data shows’, Guardian (8 September 2017)
15 Internal Momentum data shared with author
16 Video available at the Momentum Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1934599106834234
17 Tom Blackburn, ‘A Revolution of Souls: Culture Wars vs. Cultural Renewal’, New Socialist (30 April 2018)
18 Ibid.
19 Angus Satow, ‘Corbynism at a Crossroads’, New Socialist (14 March 2019)
20 Paul Johnson, ‘Labour is planning the most radical tax and spending reforms in over 70 years’, Institute for Fiscal Studies (1 October 2018)
21 Lorna Finlayson, ‘Corbyn Now’, London Review of Books (27 September 2018)
22 ‘Alternative Models of Ownership’, Labour Party (2017)
23 George Eaton, ‘Corbynism 2.0: the radical ideas shaping Labour’s future’, New Statesman (19 September 2018)
24 Andy Beckett, ‘The wilderness years: how Labour’s left survived to conquer’, Guardian (3 November 2017)
25 Ibid.
26 Maya Oppenheim, ‘Nando’s rejects Conservative Party member discount card idea’, Independent (22 May 2018)
27 Richard Power Sayeed, ‘Jeremy Corbyn is about to transform the Labour Party – again’, Independent (9 January 2018); ‘Labour bets millions on community organising to win next election’, Red Roar (22 September 2018)
28 Heather Stewart, ‘Momentum urges Labour to adopt “radical” pledges in next manifesto’, Guardian (16 May 2019)
29 Jessica Elgot, ‘Corbyn: Hammond right to say Labour threatens whole economic system’, Guardian (13 October 2017)
30 ‘Banking on Climate Change – Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019’, BankTrack (2019). The sum of £67 billion has been converted from the $85 billion cited in the report.
31 At her request, Amelia’s name has been changed.
32 At their request, the activist’s name has not been used.
33 Marie Le Conte, ‘Purgatory at the Hilton: what’s happened to the mood at party conference?’, Prospect (26 September 2017)